What I think about films, TV and celebs!
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott has been adapted for the screen many times, so I wasn’t particularly thrilled when Greta Gerwig announced it as her next project, but I love so many of the cast that I was excited for it anyway – and damn, they really deliver.
A lot of people have been doing their end of year lists since the start of December, but I like to wait a little longer just in case there is a late entry – I thought The Greatest Showman might have made it (it didn’t) – so here are my top 10 films of 2017.
The live-action retelling of Disney classic Beauty and the Beast was under serious pressure to be good because the original meant a lot to my family growing up. Sure, we liked The Jungle Book and Cinderella but Beauty and the Beast is the first of the live-action reboots that I desperately wanted/needed to be good – and I thankfully wasn’t let down.
It’s the start of the month which means it must be movie preview time! I’ve got you covered from superhero movies, Disney live-action reboots to some awesome independent release. Check out my picks!
We are rapidly approaching 2017 so it seems like the right moment to look ahead at what movies we can be excited about this coming year.
This week, there has been an insane influx of movie trailers from Spider-Man: Homecoming, Fifty Shades Darker to Baywatch. There has been so much new footage to feast your eyes on you could be forgiven for missing some. So here’s a handy guide of the trailers you may have missed this week.
I have not been this excited about a film since Star Wars last year and following the critical acclaim it received at the Venice Film Festival, my hype for La La Land was huge and my expectation level so high and it was exactly what I wanted and more. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it.
This thriller, which has been renamed from Colonia in other countries, has been doing the rounds since the 2015 Toronto Film Festival and has finally come to U.K. shores. It hasn’t fared very well critically and isn’t expected to get many bums on seats, which is why I’m here to tell you to give it a shot – it really isn’t as bad as other critics would lead you to believe.
This week it was announced that Emma Watson would play the lead role in the film adaptation of the 2013 Dave Eggers novel The Circle. It is a technology thriller about a massive Silicon Valley tech giant (like Google or Apple) who gradually unite all the users’ needs, social networks, all Internet activities to the company, so it has almost totalitarian power and can see what anyone is doing at any given time. Here’s why you need to read the book first:
Here’s my selection of the best pictures of Oscars (ahead or during the ceremony):
The most talked about selfie:
GIF of them rushing to get in:
Look at Jennifer pushing Bradley out of the way, Jared rushing in at the last minute and Lupita’s brother rushing in for a prime position behind Bradley.
Benedict Cumberbatch photo bombs U2
Lupita dancing to Pharrell’s Happy
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emma Watson ready to present
